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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      the demands of life and desires of the heart are very different across these phases. a schoolboy wants very different things, and needs to be a different sort of person, than a breadwinner

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      2. letting ones desires and identity transition to accommodate the demands of a new phase is disorienting and possibly the most challenging part of a person's life, and stumbling may be the source of many hard lives. I am imagining two main classes of failure modes here

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      the first failure mode is the obvious one of not letting oneself change. i had been stumbling about with this one without knowing it for a while by keeping work (which does actually matter) at arms length from what I imagined my life to be about

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      a very good depiction of a similar case is in _Juno_; if you've seen it you know the character I'm talking about (I don't think I was anywhere near as bad as that one)

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      consider also Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused; Linus and his security blanket these are extreme cases

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      eigenrobot Retweeted acid shill

      the second failure mode is swerving so hard into the new phase that one fails to integrate it with their past lives this is subtler and I don't have any clean examples from fiction but I suspect its nevertheless a real problemhttps://twitter.com/acidshill/status/1435828877469704196?s=19 …

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      acid shill @acidshill
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      you either die a cool kid or live long enough to see yourself become a normie
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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      im imagining the damage from such a failure as the debris of broken relationships and a loss of personal meaning, of waking up at 45 and getting a divorce and a sports car and getting hair plugs and wondering what has happened with your life

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      I hate a lot of things about _American Beauty_ but maybe it does get this right

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    9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      I dont know that I have any good advice about how to manage this apart from "this happens, and remember that scylla and charybdis bound these channels" let your identity be flexible as your needs change I guess, while tending to things you care about to keep them continuous

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    10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      good luck pals 💪💪

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8

      eigenrobot Retweeted sev

      I love this yes thank youhttps://twitter.com/PageSeverian/status/1435837457946144770?s=19 …

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      sev @PageSeverian
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      I'm reminded of this framing. A lot of what you're describing sounds like coming to accept which stories you're actually the protagonist of https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1430239100045561859 …
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      • Christopher Sanchez is here for it. ♿♎♂️🔞 𝚅𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕 🖤 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚝 ConceptPtr flat earth enthusiast ℝeal Radley // 5’6” Lemy RXVII (🐀, 🥯) operator Geoffrey Ogden Cletus Van Damme
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        2. Arjun‏ @arjunxkapoor Sep 8
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Arjun Retweeted Dr. Cam  🤴🏻  🥷🏻  🧙🏻‍♂️  🤵🏻

          https://twitter.com/drcamrx/status/1174764334125178880 …

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          Dr. Cam  🤴🏻  🥷🏻  🧙🏻‍♂️  🤵🏻 @DrCamRx
          To grow, be willing to lie in the ashes. Then be willing to rise when you are called. https://twitter.com/DrCamRx/status/1172327771470581762 … pic.twitter.com/75bMvjfDPT
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        3. Arjun‏ @arjunxkapoor Sep 8
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          Arjun Retweeted Dr. Cam  🤴🏻  🥷🏻  🧙🏻‍♂️  🤵🏻

          https://twitter.com/drcamrx/status/970561340329795584 …

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          Dr. Cam  🤴🏻  🥷🏻  🧙🏻‍♂️  🤵🏻 @DrCamRx
          1/"Despite our Disneyland culture, some men around thirty-five or forty will begin to experience ashes privately, without ritual, even without old men. They begin to notice how many of their dreams have turned to ashes… pic.twitter.com/ofEVEN2m9i
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        1. Fahad Alam‏ @FahadMAlam Sep 8
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          i long ago accepted my role in life as the fan favorite dark horse who was initially a throwaway character

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        1. all-paca father‏ @OneEyedAlpaca Sep 8
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          it's parenthood, specifically fatherhood you become the Caregiver and Provider, with little humans depending on you and things now have deeper meaning feel it, breath deep and enjoy all the moments

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        2. mousr ( 🐈)‏ @Mousr8 Sep 8
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          This hurt to read and I needed to read it. I think becoming a parent might be the transition to "no longer the protagonist of my own life"... that is so frightening and I need to take this time to make peace with that

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Sep 8
          Replying to @Mousr8

          eigenrobot Retweeted sev

          I really like this framing. you can still be a protagonist; only the story is different. :)https://twitter.com/PageSeverian/status/1435837457946144770?s=19 …

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          sev @PageSeverian
          Replying to @eigenrobot
          I'm reminded of this framing. A lot of what you're describing sounds like coming to accept which stories you're actually the protagonist of https://twitter.com/toad_spotted/status/1430239100045561859 …
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        2. Anthony (Andy) Hall‏ @Squidbidness Sep 8
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          Something I really value about religion is that it has given me an overarching sense of identity that transcends life stages. Still, my understanding of that overarching identity is inevitably colored by my current mortal immersions.

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        3. Anthony (Andy) Hall‏ @Squidbidness Sep 8
          Replying to @Squidbidness @eigenrobot

          So it's really quite important for me to take time to really experience the transcendence. I need to let make get immersed in that as well. It's not enough to have a kind of cognitive assent to that higher identity--I have to really feel it.

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        1. loaded dice genetic gambler‏ @SilverVVulpes Sep 9
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          find all of this extremely hard to relate to, as in didn't think of myself of protagonist typically (had antagonists but got rid of them thanks to growing up, completely sidestepping having to deal with them) and idk, haven't had dif age requirements make me go'normie' yet

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